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US 12,643,744 B2Granted
Method for inspecting a facility, preferably a conveying facility
AssigneeContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH
InventorsAxel Eckmann, Patrick May, Jack Bruce Wallace, Clemens Panzer, Ester Belen Bandiera
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for inspecting a facility (1), wherein the method comprises at least the automatically executed steps of: capturing (100a) optical data from at least one facility part (12, 13) of the facility (19), capturing (100b) acoustic data from at least the same facility part (12, 13) of the facility (19), and jointly evaluating (200) the captured optical data and the captured acoustic data.
Claims5
An inspection system for inspecting a conveying facility, the system comprising:
- at least one drone to capture both optical and acoustic data;
- an RGB camera;
- a plurality of acoustic sensors, and
- at least one control unit configured to:
- capture optical data from a plurality of rollers of the facility (19) using the RBG camera and the infrared camera;
- capture (100b) acoustic data from the plurality of rollers using the plurality of acoustic sensors;
- jointly evaluate the captured optical data and the captured acoustic data to determine conditions for the plurality of rollers;
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- wherein the plurality of acoustic elements are located on the conveying facility and the infrared camera is located on a drone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.